You see Gaz, you are such a loser. Everybody knows that.

yeh sure you believe that

That's right Gaz - it will be the same! In fact the nifty thing with these youtube videos is that they are the same everytime you replay them, so knock yourself out! Put that phone right up close to the PC speakers this time and you might get a better, more audible rendition! Then just post the new link and watch us all ignore it for the shite that it is!

I'll admit that I was wrong though. I thought that stealing somebody else's performance and claiming it was your own was the lowest you could stoop but then you go and excel yourself by insisting that you did in fact play it and carry on lying even though you've been rumbled.

If you had any sort of dignity left after that charade, you've certainly lost it now. Stop trying to insult our intelligence just because you lack any yourself!

I do agree what you say, Gaz is a low life loser.

keep goin.......

of course you know me

you could be a paedophile for all i know

Gaz the best way to clear this up is 4 to record a new version,

yes

thats what i said at the ****in begginin

I'm not gettin on ur case m8, just sayin, prove ppl wrong with ur playin, look forward to hearing it. Meanwhile here is a very rough version of the dead or alive solo, the backing track and solo are not exactly in time, and the improv solo at the end is not gr8, hopefully have a better one up soon when i get more time.

http://www.putfile.com/stef147

http://www.buildyourownclone.com/index.html

a cool site i just found for anyone who's into diy stuff or just effects in general.

i have no clue about building pedals or soldering or anything but im considering ordering the delay or compressor to give it a go cos it looks really simple and they sound great.

Added the DC solo 1 video - apologies for the pre-solo muckin' around! :)

Will add a pic of my new koa Ovation electro-acoustic shortly.

www.putfile.com/rs8mb0r8

you've got way too many nice guitars.

you should share some :-)

The new electro-acoustic was an engagement present from my girlfriend after I popped the question a couple of weeks ago - she'd only been waiting 3 yrs and 10 mths. She has patience, I'll give her that!! :)

you think she'd buy me a guitar if i proposed? she wouldn't need to wait nearly 4 years either :-)

congrats man. got a date or is it one of the seems years away but sneaks up on you in no time deallies?

Thanks mate. ;)

Sort of a mix of the two actually. We know roughly when it'll be but haven't set a specific date yet - it'll definitely be some point during summer 2008 though.

well if you have to sell off any gear to help pay for all the expensive (and totally unnescessary things) she'll demand for it you know where to come :-)

wow it's been like an episode of eastenders in here while i've been gone, it's all been happening hasn't it. when do we find out that Gaz is actually Jim Bon jovi's long lost son?

Some excellent playing going on aswell. RS8, i have the same ovation acoustic and they are fantastic. it's a beatiful colour and has a really interesting wood grain. They're so easy to play aswell.

Gaz if you want a backing track to prove people wrong then let me know your e-mail address and i'll sort one out for you.

I've just come back from hols so i should at least have the first solo uploaded onto putfile by the end of the week.

No probs bout the backing track, good holiday?

Yeah it was fantastic thanks. We went to Tunisia and did the whole tourist thing, went to see where they filmed star wars, met a family that still lived in caves and we went on a camel ride into the sahara desert. missed my guitar though, so hopefully i'll be up for recording a blistering DC solo pretty soon.

can anyone help me? i'm tryng to record my marshall combo amp direct into my recording desk. I've tried linking it up via the line out but it doesn't seem to work. by that i mean that no sound is coming through my earphones plugged in to the desk but noise is coming out of the amp as if it didn't have anything plugged into the line out. surely plugging into the line out should bypass the cabinet?

hi guys, i could do with the dc backing track please to amars68562@aol.com, cant believe this gaz thing, hes even removed the link now.

Andy

Yeah, I have to say that the new Ovation acoustic plays very well. The treble seems a little touchy when its plugged in though. It's either too lacking or, when you try and restore a little more balance by adjusting the high end on either the amp or the on-board EQ controls, it comes out a little too harsh. Might be a case of running it through the right amp - it's currently set up through my Fender Stage 100 which is obviously designed with electric guitars in mind as opposed to electro-acoustic.

I'm gonna adjust the action height on it shortly as well cos the factory settings are a little too high for my liking but I haven't had time to get around to unstringing it and removing some of the strips under the saddle yet.

A great guitar though!! I love it!

Pretty off topic but I have an acoustic, not an Ovation, that has a sound I like until I plug it in and it's way too treble like. Is this a common problem for acoustic/electrics to have?

can't say i've really noticed mine being too trebly. My other electro-acoustic does seem have trouble with the treble when it's plugged in, so it could be a common problem or it could be just what your guitar made out of and pickups. i've tried other ovation copies and they've deffinately needed treble boosts so i'm not entirely sure.

RS8, aswell as taking out the strips under the bridge, there is also a possibility of filing some of the actual bridge down to get it even lower. mine is really low now. what i found strange is that the instruction manual said if you lower the strings and you get fret buzz then this doesn't mean that it's a fault, but surely if you're getting fret buzz it means that it's too low?

what kind of marshall is it?

on my avt if you DI out, you'll still gets ound coming from the amp providing the master volume is up. turn it down there's no amp sound but it's still runnign intot he desk.

personally i love recording with the thing melting your face.

one of the most fun recordings ive ever done was a few weeks ago laying down a bass part on honky tonk women for a demo we're doing because it was running through an amp, into the desk and was coming through a big wedge monitor so you could feel as well as hear it pounding away :)

on a slightly shit note. we had a guy called brian that drummed for us a few years back who's brother eddie went to school with me and my twin bro.

i dunno exactly what happened but eddie got into a fight the next scheme over here the other night, sustained massive head injuries and died in hospital that night.

it's a shame cause eddie was a bit of a nutter but brian was fine for the most part but i can see a whole lot of shit escalating as a result of this and just hope brian's sensible enough to let the cops deal with it.

That's not good man. where abouts do you live?

i'm using a marshall mg80cd. i've tried with the master vol down and still nothing comes through the recorder. could it be a faulty connnection on the line out or possibly my guitar lead? should i be using a proper amp lead?

i just use guitar leads for my out.

check it going from guitar to amp to see if it's the lead.

if not it sounds like it's the line out.

is it a stereo or mono out? mine is stereo and i think it's only the left one it works in mono with....

it's not the greates guitar lead in the world so it could be that. will have another play with it tonight to see if i can sort it.

Anyone close to posting another attempt at DC? Andy i will send you the backing track later this evening.

Just another question to everyone, i'm trying to build my reptoire of acoustic singalongs so i was wondering if you had any suggestions for good songs to learn, i'm fed up of people saying can you play this and i say no, then i play them something and they've never heard of it.

brown eyed girl
summer of 69
live forever
take it easy
livin on a prayer
yellow
honky tonk women
beautiful
wonderwall
dont look back in anger


there's tonnes of stuff that translates well onto acoustic just as a straight conversion from the electric part.

a couple of cool lesser know ones that i play people tend to love:

jeff buckleys hallelujah
damien rice's cannonball
and an arrangement of the smith's there is a light that never goes out.

all 3 of them have great little guitar parts.

i thought you'd be able to help, with your previous busking exploits. i was thinking of some more of the old songs like american pie etc, so if anyone else has suggestion that'd be great

american pie :-) i dont think anyone can't like that

wish you were here
sit down by james
with or without you and one by u2
ziggy stardust

well here's my attempt at the first solo of dry county, it's not great but it's probably as good as it gets for me at the moment.please let me know what you think and also if it works or not cos i was having problems listening to it on putfile.
http://media.putfile.com/drycountysolo

well i played with my amp last night. my trouble now is that i can hear it coming through the desk but everything is up full and i can only just hear it. don't really wanna have to whack the master volume up cos i live in flats and will just piss people off. looks like i may have to think about getting a different amp. does anyone know if all marshalls are like this i.e. where if you record via the line out it doesn't bypass the cab? or is it just certain models?

i dunno mate.

as i said, my avt 275 can be quiet or haved sound coming out of the combo when recording direct.

does the mg have just the master volume or does it have independent volumes for the different channels plus a master volume?

if you have independents and a master you can record silently yet have the thing "cranked" going into the desk...

i cant remember off the top of my head but im thinking the mg series were just 2 channel amps with the one volume?

it's got a volume for the distorted channel, but not the clean channel and a master volume. i've tried with the master volume down and the dirty channel up and that's when i can get some sound but hardly audible.

you might just have to crank the amp then.

on the other hand you should do what i done and move next to a deaf old woman :-D

That would be ideal. might see about doing a trade for one of the new marshalls. they have the dedicated headphone output aswell for silent practice which would really be handy.

Thought i'd get this thread back on the first page with a question. How do you go about constructing solo's? i'm doing some recording at the moment and all my solo's seem to sound the same. so i was just wondering what different techniques you all use when it comes to showing off?

very cool brian may video on youtube having fun with delay effects.



as for compossing solo's...

i never wrote any solo's for the band as my bro played lead, i was more bothered about riffs, hooks and fills so i cant really comment but when solo-ing or improving over songs i usually just work around the chords and scales.